Brief Life History of Richard Ransom
When Richard Ransom Haddock was born on 19 December 1852, in Pierce City, Lawrence, Missouri, United States, his father, Charles Haddock Jr., was 43 and his mother, Susannah Columbia Meyers, was 29. He married Sarah Browning on 7 November 1872, in Barry, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Barry, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Exeter Township, Barry, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 21 January 1941, in Exeter, Barry, Missouri, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Exeter Township, Barry, Missouri, United States.
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- Ransom Haddock in household of Susan Haddock, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mr Ramson Haddock, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Ransom Haddock, "BillionGraves Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863
Historical Boundaries: 1863: Lawrence, Missouri, United States
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
Name Meaning
English:
variant of the Lancashire surname Haydock , a habitational name from a place so called near Liverpool, which is probably named from Welsh heiddog ‘characterized by barley’.
from the Middle English personal name Addoc, a pet form of Old English Æddi (itself perhaps derived from one of the names in ēad ‘wealth, prosperity’), with prosthetic H-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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